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I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit much (lemmy.world)
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[–] Kyouki@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Btrfs snapshots and auto snapshots is kind of the same?

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

NixOS can be managed with Git and you can bring your old environment to a new PC without reloading a full snapshot. Config and data are kept separate when you use Nix to handle the config

[–] Kyouki@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Not a developer myself; what benefits does that give me? I know it's repeatable on different hardware or equal across machines, but wat else would be a win to pick Nix? Immutable so its a pretty static experience?

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

For most use-cases, yes. I wouldn't want to use any distro without simple rollback anymore. This boils down to Fedora Atomic, NixOS, or btrfs + any distro.

[–] Kyouki@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Agreed. Lifesaver tool many times as a average Linux nerd for about 2-3 years now.